Chinmoy Mukherjee

Shadow of the Sun (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Shadow of the Sun is a provocative retelling of Karna's story from the Mahabharata, portraying him not as a tragic hero but as a villain corrupted by vices, bad company, and unchecked ambition. Born to Kunti through a divine mantra invoking the Sun God Surya, Karna is gifted with innate radiance and protective armor, but his upbringing fosters entitlement and resentment. Adopted into the Kuru family by Pandu, he grows jealous of his half-brothers, the Pandavas, indulging in debauchery, wine, and reckless behavior that alienates him from teachers like Drona. Seeking power, he deceives Parashurama for advanced training, earning curses that foreshadow his downfall. His alliance with Duryodhana solidifies during a tournament humiliation, where Duryodhana crowns him King of Anga, binding them in a toxic friendship fueled by shared indulgences and mutual hatred for the Pandavas.

As the epic unfolds, Karna's villainy escalates through acts of cruelty and betrayal. Rejected by Draupadi at her swayamvara for his debauchery, he harbors a vengeful grudge, culminating in his vicious role during the rigged dice game where he insults and orders the disrobing of Draupadi in the royal assembly. Despite revelations of his true lineage from Krishna and his father Surya, urging him to join the Pandavas, Karna rejects redemption, choosing loyalty to Duryodhana's chaotic lifestyle over dharma. In the Kurukshetra war, he orchestrates the treacherous killing of the young Abhimanyu by breaking rules of fair combat, further cementing his moral decay. His death comes on the seventeenth day, facing Arjuna, where curses from his pastforgetting vital knowledge and his chariot wheel sinkingseal his fate, exposing the hollowness of his pride.

In the aftermath, Karna's legacy haunts the victors, revealed as Kunti's eldest son, evoking horror rather than sorrow among the Pandavas for his fratricidal choices. His son Vrishaketu initially emulates his father's vices but ultimately rejects them, breaking the cycle. However, Karna's reckless "generosity" as Danveer leaves Hastinapura economically ruined, his myth of heroism masking fiscal corruption. The novella concludes with a warning: Karna's story illustrates how potential is squandered by vice, leaving a lingering moral stain on history, where unchecked shadows eclipse even the brightest light.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Chinmoy Mukherjee
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798232128166
• Artikelnr.: 76092772

Autorenporträt

Chinmoy Mukherjee is the first Indian to author 100+ books in English, which includes 50+ Novellas. He has been working as solution architect for past 15 years. Over the past 25 years, he has contributed to 50 real-world software projects as an individual contributor. His experience has enabled him to design, develop, and deploy some of the most complex systems, handling millions of transactions per day. As both an AWS and GCP-certified architect, he has not only built 8 systems from scratch but has also successfully re-engineered 7 legacy systems, improving their performance by 1530%.

His expertise in cybersecurity has led to incredible discoveriessome thrilling, some frustrating. He was listed among the top 100 security researchers in the world for Microsoft (Q4, 2022) and also in Google's Hall of Fame. He ethically hacked Baba Bank, retrieving its entire customer database, and even achieved remote code execution in JPMC & Solana. Over time, he has reported critical vulnerabilities to 50+ Australian companies and received bug bounties from Uber, Apple, Mastercard, Octopus Australia, MagicLeap, and Paysafe. One of his wildest exploits? He found a vulnerability that let him order a Porsche without payingonly to receive a meager $1050 bounty for the discovery.

His penchant for testing boundaries made him the first engineer among 500,000 in HCLTech to complete and download all 1,000 offered certificates. In the industry, he played a critical role in defeating Infosys in 3 major RFPs while being part of underdog teams. Beyond corporate challenges, he took the lead in India's first blockchain token deployment, successfully developing and listing tokens on the Ethereum network.

Innovation has been central to his career. He holds 3 patents, granted in the USA and Australia. Among them, he developed "Patient Analytics," a patented system that underwent successful clinical trials in India. He has published a technical book titled "Build Android-Based Smart Applications" via Springer. This book has been downloaded by 18000+ software professionals from single channel of Springer.